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Simplepowa
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Russia could ban Facebook over ads for hallucinogenic smoking blends
#18869959 - 09/20/13 10:34 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Russia may block Facebook if it confirms the company displayed ads promoting banned smoking blends.
The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media—Russia's media watchdog—is investigating claims the ads appeared on the site, according to RT.
In 2009, Russia forbid the production, sale, and use of the smoking blends allegedly marketed on Facebook. They contain active ingredients such as salvia divinorum or blue lotus, which can cause hallucinations.
Facebook users in Russia reported seeing ads through which they were redirected to a site where they could buy the smoking blends wholesale and have them delivered.
“If Facebook does not respond then [we] will have a reason to put the company’s website on the list of banned sites [in Russia],” the watchdog's Vladimir Pikov said.
The Russian arm of the company claimed the ads were a "glitch" and promised it was removing them. Facebook prohibits ads for goods or services in territories where they are banned.
A lawyer claimed the watchdog can only bring a case against Facebook if it can prove the company knew about the ads (advertisers use a self-service platform to market their goods on Facebook), while one Russian senator suggested he "will be happy" if Facebook is fined several million dollars over the incident.
Meanwhile, the watchdog has blocked thousands of Web pages this month alone for promoting drug use, according to Radio Spectr.
Kris Holt The Daily Dot September 17, 2013 http://www.dailydot.com/news/facebook-russia-smoking-ban-ads/
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Konyap

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Re: Russia could ban Facebook over ads for hallucinogenic smoking blends [Re: Simplepowa]
#18870235 - 09/20/13 11:39 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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my3rdeye



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Re: Russia could ban Facebook over ads for hallucinogenic smoking blends [Re: Konyap]
#18870290 - 09/20/13 11:53 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I am glad this country did not win the cold war. Drug sites are banned, yet you could post the torture of gay teenagers online and nothing happens. Fuck Russia.
Neo-Nazi group Format18 and their infamous spokesperson Maxim Martsinkevich (nicknamed Tesak, or ‘hatchet’) have lead the attacks on LGBTQ youth that claim to target paedophiles on the internet. However this is a lie; they put up fake profiles on social networking sites and arrange to meet with LGBTQ youth for a date, only to kidnap, torture, rape and even kill them – all without prosecution by the state. Many of the young people that this group have targeted have subsequently had videos and photos of their kidnap and torture put on the internet, causing them to be outed, humiliated and often driven to suicide.
The victims of the far-right are not just LGBTQ people, the fascists also attack black people, immigrants and various religious groups, in order to scapegoat them – one high profile attack in 2006 by neo-Nazis in St. Petersburg ended in the death of a Sengalese student, Lamzar Samba.
from http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/russias-gay-bashing-politics-look-de
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Konyap

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Re: Russia could ban Facebook over ads for hallucinogenic smoking blends [Re: my3rdeye]
#18870296 - 09/20/13 11:56 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Neo Nazi's in saint petersburg? I'd fucking shoot my country man so being so ignorant.
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Konyap

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Re: Russia could ban Facebook over ads for hallucinogenic smoking blends [Re: Konyap]
#18870299 - 09/20/13 11:57 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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nevermind russians used to do that too
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hidenseek1
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Re: Russia could ban Facebook over ads for hallucinogenic smoking blends [Re: Konyap]
#18874310 - 09/21/13 11:40 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
A lawyer claimed the watchdog can only bring a case against Facebook if it can prove the company knew about the ads
how do they not even know what they are advertising
did anyone hear about the face book ad featuring a recently deceased girl in a dateing ad
you would think they have somebody that checks what they are advertising
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